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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

R. Buckminster Fuller

[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

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